The agitation against the Union government’s move to sell profit-making public sector enterprise Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) will enter the 1,000th day on Thursday.
The Centre has ignored the agitation as well as the repeated pleas by the State government against the decision to privatise the PSE that functions under the Ministry of Defence, according to the protestors. BEML makes several vehicles, including personnel vehicles for the military, which had played a notable role in taking the country to victory in the Kargil War.
Employees at BEML units at Kanjikode, Kolar, Mysuru, and Bengaluru have been on an agitation since January 6, 2021. It was on January 4, 2021, that the Union government invited letters of interest for selling the PSE.
